Fish-hook holder.



PATENTED APR 2, 1907.

G. E. ALLSHOUSE.

FISH HOOK HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 24. 1906.

71f .JFZOCIiZE? W I Keely/[$720566 UNITE CLARENCE E. ALLSHOUSE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FISH-HOOK HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed December 24, 1906- Serial No. 349,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE E. ALLs- HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fish- Hook Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fish-hook holders, and has for its object to provide a device which is simple and cheap in construction and efficient in operation, adapted to receive and securely hold in position for ready removal fish-hooks of various kinds, including plain or Weedless hooks, snell-hooks, and fly-hooks.

Other and further objects of my invention will best become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fish-hook holder. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is transverse section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 el of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a detail seotion on line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Throughout the drawings like numerals of reference refer always to like parts.

In the drawings, indicates a plate, preferably of metal, of non-corrosive character, such as aluminium, having provided thereon, preferably adjacent one end thereof, a transverse series of hook-receiving members, preferably in the form of loops 11 11, each closed at its upper end, and adjacent its opposite end provided with a series of corresponding" clip devices 12. In the specific construction shown and that which I prefer the loops 11 are formed by striking from the body of the plate tongues of metal of the shape of the apertures 13 left in the plate by their removal and bending said tongues backward to the loop form, (best shown in Fig. 4,) the free extremities of the tongues being inserted through proper apertures in the plate 10 and preferably headed, as shown at 14 in Fig. 1, so that each loop is secured at both ends and is closed at its top.

The clips 12 are preferably formed by providing at the opposite extremity of the plate free projecting tongues 15, arranged in pairs, whereof the members are slightly separated and each at its upper end tapered, as indi cated at 16 in Fig. 3. These tongues are bent upward at right angles to the plate, and each is surrounded by a body. of resilient material, such as rubber, as indicated at 17, the rubber pads or cushions being preferably short sections of rubber tubing forced over the tongues and being in length substantially coextensive therewith. Thus each clip is composed of two coacting members, each of which comprises a central relatively rigid core and a surrounding body of rubber or the like, the rubber bodies being of such thickness that at their adjacent sides they press closely together.

It will be manifest from the following description that the essential idea is to have the adjacent sides of the studs or supports 15 rubber-covered, and I provide the rubber in form completely surrounding the studs or tongues mainly for the convenience of using rubber tubing as a covering material.

It will now be apparent that, as shown in the extreme left in Fig. 1, a snell bend of the hook may be positioned with the hook engaging in the loop 11 and the snell stretched longitudinally of the plate, with a portion thereof adjacent its free extremity forced between the coacting rubber surfaces 17 of the corresponding clip 12, the resilience of the rubber admitting the snell between such surfaces and pressing thereon with a retaining grip. Further, I preferably provide, in association with one or more of theloops 11, a clip 18, of generally similar arrangement to the clips 12, formed by striking up from the plate a pair of tongues 19 and covering them with rubber in the manner heretofore described, such clip or clips 18 being so positioned relative to some or all of the loops 11 as to be adapted to receive the shank of plain or Weedless hooks, which are commonly not provided with snells, as shown in the second position to the left in Fig. 1. Further, I preferably provide, in association with one or more of the loops 11, a clip 20, constructed like the clip 18, but preferably farther removed from the corresponding loop 11, such clip 20 being adapted to receive and retain the end nearest the hook of a snell of a flyhook, so that, as shown in the third position from the left in Fig. 1, a fly-hookmay be held by its snell at both ends thereof, leaving the hook free that the fly may not be damaged. Further, I preferably provide in the plate 11 corrugations 21, extending lengthwise of the structure to give it strength and rigidity against bending on a transverse line, and I preferably make the corrugations 21 bend downward from the upper side of the plate and position them closely adjacent the sides of the loops 1 1, toward which the points of the hook are intended to project.

It is well known that many styles of hooks have their points laterally bent from the general plane of their shanks, and the described positioning of the corrugations or depressions 21 relative to the loops is such as to permit the deflected point of hooks resting close to the plate to lie in the depressions or corrugations, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that several hooks may be superposed one upon the other and all retained with equal security, and it is apparent that my improved fish-hook holder provides means for thus retaining various sorts of hooks with or Without snells in manner best adapted for the particular style of hook.

While I have herein described in some detail a specific embodiment of my invention, I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to such specific construction further than as specified in the claims, as it will be apparent that considerable variation might be made without departure from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A fish-hook holder comprising a plate, hook-receiving members for receiving the bends of the hooks onto said plate, and upon said plate clips coacting with said hookreceiving members, each said clip comprising a pair of separated upright rigid members, and resilient facings upon said rigid members, arranged to receive therebetween and retain by their resilient pressure, portions of the hook.

2. In a device of the character described, a plate, a loop upon said plate, a coacting clip upon said plate suitably removed from the loop, and comprising a pair of upright, substantially rigid tongues, and bodies of rubber covering the adjacent sides of said tongues.

3. In a device of the character described, a plate, tongues struck from said plate and bent upon themselves to form vertical closed loops, coacting clips each comprising a pair of vertical, substantially rigid tongues, slightly separated, and bodies of rubber be tween the tongues receiving support from said tongues.

4. In a device of the character described, a plate, a closed loop adjacent one end of the plate, a clip adjacent the other end of the plate, comprising coacting bodies of resilient material arranged to grip therebetween the snell of a fish-line, and a similar pair of coacting bodies between the first said clip and the loop.

5. In a device of the character described, a plate, hook-receiving means adjacent one end of the plate, snell receiving and retaining means adjacent the opposite end of the plate, and corrugations in said plate arranged to receive the barbed ends of hooks positioned by the hook-receiving means and clip.

6. In a device of the character described, a

supporting structure, means thereon for receiving the bends of a plurality of hooks, and remote from such means a plurality of snellreceivin clips each comprising a pair of resilient bodies arranged to receive the snell therebetween, and each independent of the remaining clips.

7. In a device of the character described, means for receiving a hook proper, and means for receiving a snell attached to such hook proper comprising separated rigid bodies and resilient 'facings upon the adjacent sides of said rigid bodies.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE E. ALLSHOUSE.

In presence of- FORI'JE BAIN, MARY F. ALLEN. 

